Hannibal A. Carson

Hannibal Alexander Carson (1822-9 June 1863) was a colonel of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Hannibal Alexander Carson was born in Woodstock, Virginia in 1822 to a family of Dixie farmers, and he became a plantation owner. Carson became a member of the Shenandoah County Democratic Party Committee in 1857, and he was elected colonel of a cavalry regiment of the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. Carson served in the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry corps under J.E.B. Stuart, and he was killed at the Battle of Brandy Station in June 1863.